Flavoring composition.



E. V. SHBPARD I P. J. lMAYWALDl FLAVORING COMPOSITION.

APPLICATION IILIID AUG. 1, 1910.

988,213?, Patented. Mar.28,1911.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT crimen'.

EDWARD V. SHEPARD AND FREDERICK J'. MAYWALD, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.; SAD) MAYWALDASSIGNOR TO SAID SHEPARD.

FLAVORING COMP-OSITION.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD V. SHEPARD and FREDERICK J. MAYWALD, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flavoring Compositions and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the in Jentiou, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to xnakc and use the salue.

This invention relates to a new composition of matter for 'lavoring food and other products, and process of making the same; and it has for its object the dispensing of flavoring extracts, oils, or other compositions in a solid, soluble form containing a hygroscopic, non-volatile ingredient capable of preventing caking, insuring a more uniform mixture retarding volatilization and substantially preventing evaporation, oxidation or other chemical changes, of the otherwise ordinarily volatile ilavoring constituents.

The invention comprises a soluble vehicle, preferably a. sugar in the granulated state, associated or combined with the particular flavoring extract or oil desired, such as oil of lemon, orange, or almond, extract of vanilla, tonka, 0r synthetics, such as vanillin, or other substances imparting the peculiar and particular flavor desired, and associated with such iavoring compound or composition is a non-volatile, hygroscopic absorbent and volatile retardant of a soluble character,

such as glycerin.

As an illustration of a composition having the character of our new ilavoring product, and the .manner in which the same is produced, we will take, for example, the production of almond flavoring from granulated .-sugar, oil of bitter almond, and glycerin, in

about the following proportions, viz

Granulaced sugar 100 lbs. Oil of bitter almonds, (free from prussic acid) 4 lbs. Pure glycerin 3 lbs.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application led August 1, 1,910. Serial'No. 574,782.

Patented Mar. 28, l1911.

These ingredients are thoroughly mixed, producing a slightly moist, oily product, substantially each grain of which contains oil of almond protected by a coating of glycerin. The intimate mixture of sugar and glycerin serves as an absorber and carrier of essential oils, and like substances, in a way different from either sugar or gycerin alone, as without the sugar to absorb them, mixturesof glycerin with essential oils, or like substances, are liable to separate, and without the glycerin, essential oils quickly dry out of the sugar, oxidize, or Otherwise change. l

In putting up our flavoring composition, we prefer to employ cases substantially like that shown in the accompanying drawing, in'which theV figure illustrated is a central, longitudinal sectional View of a suitable case l, preferably of aluminum, having its bottom and side walls lined with an oil-proof paper 2, and provided with a protecting topcovering 3 of similar material, the contents of' the-case being protected by a screwthreaded cap or top 4, having a lining of cork 5. As thus packed, the contents are sealeg from the air and light, and are germ proo Having thus fully described our invention what we claim is:-

1. A new flavoring composition comprising grains of sugar impregnated with a avoring substance, the impregnated grains being coatedwith a hygroscopic, non-volatile substance.

2. A new flavoring composition, compris-l ing grains of sugar impregnated with oil of almond, the impregnated grains being coated with glycerin.

In ltestimony whereofwe aiiiX our signa- .'tures, in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD V. SHEPARD. FREDERICK J. MAYWALD.

Witnesses JOHN KLEIN, CARI.v Kumi. 

